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Keith and Shuttleworth
Women: talk more than men, are more polite, are indecisive, complain, ask more questions, are supportive/co-operative.Men: swear more, talk about sport, dont talk emotions, women and machines in similar fashion, competetive, dominate, give commands, interupt more.
Classify the following judgements:a) Nag/speak with more authority....b) give commands/ask questions...
A) non-linguistic value judgementsb)objective descriptions
Robin Lakoff
Hedge-sort of, kind ofsuper polite forms-would you mind ifTag questionsIntonational emphasisEmpty adjectives- divine, lovely, adorableHyper correct grammar/pronounciationDirect quotationLexicon of coloursQuestional intonation in declarative statementsWH imperatives- why dont you open the doorSpeak lessOveruse qualifiersApologiseModal constructionsAvoid swearingIndirects commands and requestsMore intensifiersLess humour
O'Barr and Atkins
Lakoff's view was not typical of being a woman but of being powerless. Differences were a result of situation specific authority or power not gender. Court room cases showed that a low frequency of women's language features was associated with high status (i.e. lawyer)
Zimmerman and west
Dominance theory: experiment showed men more likely to interrupt than women. *however Beattie proposed that this could be a result of interest and involvement. His experiment showed that the difference was very small.** issues here include a volatile individual in the conversations?
Pamela Fishman
Conversation can fail not because of the way women talk, but because of how men respond.Questions do not reflect womens insecurity but reflect the power of questions.
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